Kharma's vendetta against starlings and pigeons was bad enough . . . but at least her barks and howls are sonorous, not ear shattering And Tallulah loves, LOVES to get right up next to me with her mouth right in my ear and let one sharp bark go just for sh1ts and giggles . . . Kharma is not amused. One of these days Tallulah is going to find herself barking with her head held inside Kharma's mouth.

__________________In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. ~Buddha

Stupid is the most notoriously incurable and contagious disease known to mankind. If you find yourself in close proximity to someone infected with stupid, walk away as soon as said infection is noted.

There are few things more nauseating than pure obedience. ~ Kvothe

***8206;"silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation."
— Rumi
Be a god. Know when to shut up.

I saw an interesting method for barking in the car on Its Me or the Dog. She covered up all the windows and put up sheet to block their view of the front and would let the dogs peek out, and if they barked she'd cover the windows again, kinda taking away the rewarding behavior of looking out the window. She only let them look if they were quiet. It didn't seem to take long for the dogs (3 Danes) to get the point. This method probably wouldn't work for dogs barking out of fear/anxiety though.

Kharma has specific things she barks at. City cops. She hates 'em with a passion - can't say as I blame her though, they've harrassed us way too many times when we've been walking . . . anyone who stares too long (that's pure Fila), she is convinced that all starlings and some pigeons should die, and there are certain traffic lights and transformers that must emit something she doesn't like. I've noticed that a lot of the ones she growls at are slated to be worked on. She's also developed an antipathy to blond women driving dark green Hondas, and there's a taxi that's leered at us once too often that she has declared war on.

Tallulah . . . . I think some of her barking is because she can't figure out what Kharma's torqued about but she's backing Kharma's play.

And some of it is just because she likes the sound of her own voice so well Trust me, she doesn't have a fear gene She does, however, have a healthy respect for Kharma, and she doesn't want to displease Bimmer. ALL the females react that way to him . . .

How would you drive with the windows covered though?

__________________In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. ~Buddha

Stupid is the most notoriously incurable and contagious disease known to mankind. If you find yourself in close proximity to someone infected with stupid, walk away as soon as said infection is noted.

There are few things more nauseating than pure obedience. ~ Kvothe

***8206;"silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation."
— Rumi
Be a god. Know when to shut up.

I saw an interesting method for barking in the car on Its Me or the Dog. She covered up all the windows and put up sheet to block their view of the front and would let the dogs peek out, and if they barked she'd cover the windows again, kinda taking away the rewarding behavior of looking out the window. She only let them look if they were quiet. It didn't seem to take long for the dogs (3 Danes) to get the point. This method probably wouldn't work for dogs barking out of fear/anxiety though.

I seen that show too. My god were those danes out of control But it worked REALLY REALLY fast. I was very surprised. I just love the show.

If you had a really small car. I'm not sure what you could do. I'm thinking that it would be against the law to cover your windows, lol.